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This item is a demonstration of CRT (Cathode Ray Tube)-like effects using options in the MAME emulator (and therefore this Javascript port) to simulate a variety of flaws and characteristics of vintage monitors that arcade games were displayed on when on their original hardware. It is highly suggested you switch to fullscreen mode (available in Firefox and Chrome) to see the subtle effects as clearly as possible. Primarily the work of Ryan Holtz / MooglyGuy of the MAME Development team (using...
Topics: CRT, HLSL
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Xonix is a "Tetris"-style game produced by Philko in 1989.
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XMultiply (エックスマルチプライ EkkusuMaruchipurai) is a side-scrolling shooter published by Irem, and similar in style to their earlier R-Type. In 1998 the game was released with Image Fight as a one-disc doublebill on PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Story The game centers around an unusual alien invasion against a colony planet in the year 2249—the aliens themselves are microscopic creatures that invade, infect, and kill the colonists. Scientists have deployed the microscopic fighter...
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WWF Superstars is an arcade game manufactured by Technōs Japan and released in 1989. It is the first WWF arcade game to be released. A series of unrelated games with the same title were released by LJN for the original Game Boy. Technōs followed the game with the release of WWF WrestleFest in 1991. Features The game features some of the signature moves and trademark mannerisms of the wrestlers in the game. There are also cut scenes featuring Ted DiBiase, André the Giant and Virgil. Mean Gene...
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Wrestle War is the name of a video game which was released in the arcades in 1989, and for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis console in 1991 in Japan, Australia, and Europe only. and was published and developed by Sega. Despite being released the same year as the National Wrestling Alliance/World Championship Wrestling's WrestleWar pay-per-view, it is not associated with any wrestling promotion. Wrestle War has also been released as part of the Sega Smash Pack. [hide]Reception Review scores...
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World Grand Prix (ザ・サーキット, "The Circuit") is a 1986 Sega Master System video game. During the course of the game, the player uses a Formula One style car. He or she has to drive the car as quickly as possible while navigating through turns and other vehicles on the road.[4] A formal scoring system is not used; players are not ranked by position unlike most racing games. This kind of timekeeping would not be used in a subsequent video game until the Nintendo Family...
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Willow is a 1989 arcade game based on the 1988 film of the same name. The evil witch queen Bavmorda is after the holy baby of the lands, Elora Danan, intent on destroying her. A young peaceful wizard called Willow Ufgood was selected to protect Elora. Later on, a brave warrior named Madmartigan joins Willow to fight the enemy rival General Kael. The arcade version of the game belongs to the platform genre. It has six stages, some where Willow plays his part, others where Madmartigan plays his...
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Wheel of Fortune is an adaption of the long-running television gameshow by Gametek, released in 1989.
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Violence Fight (バイオレンスファイト), is a 1989 fighting arcade game developed and published by Taito. As the attract screen explains, the game takes place during the early 1950's in the United States, where an underground tournament known as the "Violence Fight" had become very popular among the criminal underworld and the public at large; criminals, especially mobsters, along with other public nuisances and upstanding citizens are allured by its stakes and thrill. The...
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Volfied (ヴォルフィード Vorufīdo) is an arcade game designed by Fukio Mitsuji and released by Taito in 1989. It is a successor to Qix, with extra features and a futuristic science fiction aesthetic, rather than Qix 's abstract geometry style; the player pilots a small spaceship named "Monotros" instead of a simple dot, and the enemies come in the form of various aliens. Taking place in another galaxy, a space pilot is returning to his home world of Volfied, only to...
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Valkyrie no Densetsu (ワルキューレの伝説 Warukyūre no Densetsu, lit. "The Legend of Valkyrie") was released by Namco in 1989 in Arcades and in 1990 on the PC Engine only in Japan. It is a sequel to a Japan-only 1986 Nintendo Family Computer game entitled Valkyrie no Bōken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu. Player one controls Valkyrie while player two controls Krino Sandra (official Namco Museum romanization; he has also been romanized as Xandra, and was also named Whirlo in the...
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A basic golf game that starts with a view from the tee that shows wind velocity, direction and distance to the green. Choose your club and swing by rolling the track-ball with the desired force and direction. Extra holes given for par and under par. Seta, the U.S. Classic maker, released 11 different machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1988. Description from arcade-museum.com .
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A horizontal air combat shooter from Philko .
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Tough Turf (タフターフ) is a 1989 2D beat 'em up arcade game developed by Sunsoft and Sega. It was published by Sega in Japan and in North America by Sunsoft of America. Tough Turf resembles Technos Japan's 1987 beat 'em up arcade hit, Double Dragon. Up to two players control two office workers who appear to be leaving work and decided to proceed through warehouses and urban areas beating up gang members. Tough Turf's control configuration is composed of two attack buttons (punch and...
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Tetris (styled TETЯIS) is a puzzle game developed by Atari Games and originally released for arcades in 1988. Based on Alexey Pajitnov's Tetris, Atari's version features the same gameplay as the computer editions of the game, as players must stack differently shaped falling blocks to form and eliminate horizontal lines from the playing field. The game features several difficulty levels and two-player simultaneous play. Descriptioni from Wikipedia . That pages also contains lots of history and...
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This is a conventional scrolling shooter. Your mission is to penetrate a hostile communist military force situated inside Russian territory. The player takes control of a Harrier fighter jet with two types of main weapons. The first type can only shoot flying opponents, such as enemy planes and copters; the second, a bomb-type weapon, can only hit ground enemies, such as tanks and turrets. The player can also acquire escorts to increase firepower.[3] Changing the formation of the escort...
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Indoor competitive volleyball game where the U.S. can battle Cuba, Japan, China, and U.S.S.R. Player controls bumping, spiking, blocking, and serving. Killer spikes are rewarded with a cry of "Nice spike!", a cheering crowd, and a goofy picture of the spiking player. Description from arcade-museum.com .
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Tail to Nose: Great Championship, known in Japan as Super Formula: Chijō Saisoku no Battle (スーパーフォーミュラ・地上最速のバトル "Super Formula: The Battle of the Fastest on the Ground"), is a 1989 Formula One-based arcade racing video game developed and published by Video System. Super Formula was one of the earliest arcade games related to Formula 1, in this case the 1988 season. Although being an unlicensed game, the teams, drivers, sponsors and the only four...
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Skull & Crossbones is a two-player arcade game developed by Atari Games. The game's player characters are One-Eye (player one) and Red Dog (player two), pirates on a venture to find a wizard who stole their treasure. Skull & Crossbones has seven game levels. In some ports of the game, the first six levels may be played in any sequence: One-Eye's Ship, Spanish Castle, Pirate's Ship #1, Ninja Camp, Pirate's Ship #2, Beach Cave, and Pirate's Ship #3. Once these levels are complete, the...
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Shadow Dancer (シャドー・ダンサー) is a side-scrolling action game produced by Sega originally released as an arcade game in 1989. It is the second arcade game in the Shinobi series, following the original Shinobi itself. The game was developed on the Sega System 18 motherboard hardware. Home versions were released for the Master System and various home computers. A loose adaptation was also developed for the Mega Drive/Genesis titled Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi. A terrorist...
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R-Type II (アール・タイプ II Āru Taipu tsu) is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game developed and published by Irem in 1989. It is the second game in the R-Type series. The game is the sequel to R-Type, which was first released as an arcade game in 1987 and profoundly influenced later shooting games with its charge shots, unique weaponry, and grotesque enemies. Hudson Soft ported the later 4 levels of the original R-Type to the PC Engine with the title R-Type II, but the Hudson...
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Puzznic (パズニック Pazunikku) is a tile-matching puzzle arcade game developed and produced by Taito in 1989 and was ported for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, PC Engine, Sharp X68000, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS and ZX Spectrum between 1990 and 1991. Puzznic bears strong graphical and some gameplay similarities to Flipull/Plotting. Many games share the same basic gameplay of Puzznic but have added extra features over the years:- Puzztrix on...
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Flipull/Plotting is a tile-matching puzzle video game published by Taito in 1989. It is called Flipull (フリップル Furippuru) in Japan as well as in versions for the Famicom and Game Boy, and Plotting in versions for the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, GX4000 and ZX Spectrum. All are based on an arcade game which goes by both names. The game bears strong graphical and some gameplay similarities to Puzznic. The game was ranked the 23rd best game of all time by Amiga Power.
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From the creator: "I can’t believe I stumbled upon this but did! It was a rom hack of Ms.Pac-Man I did years ago. A long time ago a company called Two Bit Score made a Ms.Pac-Man hack called Heartburn which I thought looked cool but didn’t want to pay for it and I figured making a free version of it out on the internet would be cool. I don’t even remember the tool I used to be honest but I know it’s mine due to the screwed up animation when you move the flame upwards :) Maybe...
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The legendary Fox unit was devastated in a surprise attack by the T-Force. Only two of the six Fox members made it out alive and those two both lost their right eye in the battle. They’re going to get revenge for what happened to their teammates. Their inability to perceive spatial relationships won’t stop them from fighting a war. In remembrance of their teammates they have named their unit Meta Fox. Their survival of the massacre has inexplicably moved their flying abilities beyond normal...
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Master of Weapon is a game released by Taito for arcades and for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. It is a basic shoot 'em up game in which the player controls a space ship that has upgradeable weapons. These upgrades are collected by destroying green transport vessels which release the upgrade for the player to pick up. An entire week of nuclear war on Earth destroys its global environment. The survivors of the war gather their strength and resources in an attempt to bring Earth back to the way it...
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Marvel Land (マーベルランド) is a platform arcade game released by Namco in 1989. In Marvel Land, you play as Prince Paco (Talmit in English), who is on a quest to save Princess Luxy (Wondra in English) from the evil Mole King (Japanese: 魔王モウル; Maō Mōru). The gameplay was in the platformer style so popular at the time. Powerups included dragon wings which allowed you to jump higher and fly (to a certain extent), shoes that allow you to temporarily walk faster, and a clone...
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Line of Fire is a shooting video game, played from a first person perspective, and developed by Sega. The cabinet features two positional guns, and a design which allows the player(s) to sit down while playing the game. It was first released in arcades in 1989 before being converted to home computers and published by U.S. Gold in 1990. It was released on the Sega Master System in 1991, however the style of the game was changed to that of an overhead scrolling shooter. It follows a two man...
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Legend of Hero Tonma (レジェンド・オブ・ヒーロー・トンマ) is a side scrolling platform game released by Irem to arcades in 1989. The player controls a caped hero named Tommy in his quest to rescue a princess. Tommy can cast fireballs (which can be upgraded in power) to dispatch enemies, and jump on their heads to temporarily stun them. The arcade game was later ported to the PC-Engine in 1991 and the home console's overseas equivalent, TurboGrafx-16 in 1993. The latter version...
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Klax (クラックス Kurakkusu) is a 1989 computer puzzle game designed by Dave Akers and Mark Stephen Pierce. The object is to line up colored blocks into rows of similar colors to make them disappear, to which the object of Columns is similar. Atari Games originally released it as a coin-op follow up to Tetris, about which they were tangled in a legal dispute at the time. Akers programmed Klax in just a few weeks using AmigaBASIC, then ported it line-by-line to C. In a 1990 interview, he...
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Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road is an arcade video game released in 1989 by Leland Corporation. The game was endorsed by professional off road racer Ivan Stewart. Virgin Games produced several home versions in 1990. In 1991, an NES version was later released by Leland's Tradewest subsidiary followed by versions for most major home formats, including NES, Sega Genesis, SNES, Amiga and MS-DOS. In the game, up to three players (four in the NES version through use of either the NES...
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Hellfire (ヘルファイヤー) is a 1989 scrolling shooter video game developed by Toaplan and published by Taito. The game was initially released in the arcades before it was ported to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis and the PC Engine CD-ROM², the latter under the name Hellfire S. Hellfire S contained notable differences from the other versions, including a remixed, more orchestral soundtrack, animated cut scenes, and the replacement of the leading male character Lancer with a female character...
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Gigandes is a horizontal scrolling shooter arcade game released by East Technology. Spanning eight stages, the player's ship kept all of its weapon power-ups if they lost a life, but would promptly lose the power-ups and items once they started the next stage. In a future setting, the dimensional, suggestively demonic, creature and title character Gigandes suddenly awakens. Residing deep below the Earth's surface, it calls its own worshippers and space force from other galaxies to the Milky Way...
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Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters is an arcade game developed by Atari Games in 1989. The game is based loosely around the campy science fiction B movies of the 1950s. It was ported for most major home computer platforms of the time. According to the introduction, Planet X is a synthetic industrial planetoid whose most notable feature is the research laboratory of the buxom and brainy Dr. Sarah Bellum. Evil aliens called Reptilons invade the planet, capture the good doctor, and force...
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